T. H. White (1906-64) was born in Bombay and educated at Cheltenham College and Queen's College, Cambridge. He taught at Stowe between 1930 and 1936, lived in Ireland during the Second World War, then moved in 1945 to the Channel Island of Alderney. His love of sports, especially falconry, is reflected in The Goshawk (1951), an account of his experience training a hawk.
He wrote a number of books for adults, including The Age of Scandal (1950) and the science fiction tale The Master (1957), as well as translating a twelfth-century bestiary, The Book of Beasts (1954). He is best known for his books for children based on Arthurian legend. The first of these is The Sword in the Stone (1937), on which the animated Disney film was based. His four books on this theme were published in one volume in 1958 as The Once and Future King and inspired the 1960 musical Camelot.
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